The St. Louis Blues haven’t won a ton of individual awards over the course of their history. Nevertheless, there is always hope the current team will be the one to rack up the hardware.
The St. Louis Blues are not what you would call a franchise blessed with trophies. They only have a handful of division championships, three conference championships and a Presidents Trophy to their name.
As far as their individual players, the cupboard is a little less bare, but still not quite as full as other franchises. The trophies have just been harder to come by for the Blues.
That is not to say it’s never happened.
Barret Jackman won the Calder. Doug Armstrong, to the disbelief of several readers, won GM of the year.
Glenn Hall was one of the few to win the Conne Smythe as a member of the losing team in the final. Chris Pronger and Al MacInnis won the Norris Trophy and Pronger won the Hart Trophy as well, becoming only the second Blues member to get that honor after Brett Hull.
Interestingly, the Blues have had the best luck in the coaching category. Red Berenson, Brian Sutter, Joel Quenneville and Ken Hitchcock all won the Jack Adams award for best coach.
So, there are a few award winners in the team’s history. Nobody is taking anything away from any of those guys either.
It is simply an idea that most Blues fans do not go into a season thinking our players are going to be award winners. Despite this, or in spite of it, there are some outside shots at this year’s team bringing home some individual hardware.
With that in mind, let’s look at the five Blues members that could get some publicity in Vegas come next spring.